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"..A child, with the ability to read others' emotions, and a man, who tries not to show any. It was the kind of meeting that left marks, even if neither of them knew it yet..."
Everyone knows Bucky Barnes' story. The Winter Soldier. A man out of time - lost in battle in the 1940s, only to be reborn as Hydra's deadliest weapon. His name lingering in whispers, history books, nightmares. And now living on in newspapers, television headlines, an Avenger, a congressman.
But no one ever talks about the other one. The child Hydra never meant for the world to see. Raised in the shadows, not as a soldier, but as an experiment - a test subject built to echo Bucky's strength, but never his freedom.
She was Hydra's secret. The child made and shaped by Hydra, but raised by him. His daughter. His legacy. Nora Barnes. The Winter's Ghost.